The league standings reveals that 3 points divide the two contenders in this League Two match. Mansfield Town own both the points- and home ground advantage.
- Mansfield Town have won all their matches at home so far.
- Carlisle United have yet to win a game away.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Mansfield Town form and stats
Perfect League Two season at home so far for Mansfield Town 3 wins from 3 appearances.
It's back home for Mansfield Town, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Doncaster Rovers away with the result 3-1. Akins, Maris and Clarke found the net in that victory. The gifted forward Akins edged out all teammates in that match and was awarded a match rating of 7.64 out of 10. Akins scored one goal, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that result, a home victory hosting Manchester City U21 in the EFL Trophy.
Goals are plentiful at One Call Stadium in the league this season as Mansfield Town has scored 8 goals here in 3 home games.
Carlisle United form and stats
The League Two season is young and Carlisle United have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 2 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 1 defeat so far.
There were no winners in Carlisle's previous match, the home game that ended 3-3 vs Rochdale (placed 24th). An inspired comeback made the scores level in Carlisle United's duel with Rochdale. It looked bad at 1-3 but the team were not done and fought back to 3-3 after Huntington found the equalizer. Moxon got a match rating of 8.44 in that game, top player of the team. Moxon served one assist and hit three key passes.
The fixture before was the EFL Trophy-battle against Manchester United U21, a home loss (1-2). As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Carlisle playing away, we found 5 games. Results were 1 away win, 1 draw and 3 home wins.
Carlisle United have the goal stats of 2-3 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - three - three (Mansfield Town wins - draws - Carlisle United wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  K. Dennis 5 goals |   O. Clarke 2 goals | G. Maris 2 goals |
Mansfield Town missing players
Carlisle United missing players
| Mansfield Town | Carlisle United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | 8 | 6 | Scored | S | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 9 | 3 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 71% | 67% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 57% | 67% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 29% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 14% | 33% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 57% | 67% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 14% | 33% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 8 | 8.3 | 9.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.5 | 4.3 |
| 3.4 | 3 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.5 | 4.3 |
| 1.7 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.5 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13.3 | 13 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 11 | 13.7 |
| 3.7 | 6 | 6.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4 | 4.7 |
| 46% | 44% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 25% | 29% |
| 7.3 | 6 | 4.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 20 | 16 | 11.3 |
| 2.9 | 1.7 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 3 | 2.7 |
- All of Carlisle United's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Carlisle United have scored in all their matches so far.
- Carlisle United have yet to win a game away.
- Carlisle United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Mansfield Town have won all their matches at home so far.
- Mansfield Town have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Mansfield Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Leyton Orient | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 19 |
| 2 | Stevenage | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 3 | Barrow | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| 4 | Salford City | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 |
| 5 | Northampton Town | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 | Doncaster Rovers | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | Mansfield Town | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 8 | Bradford City | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
| 9 | Grimsby Town | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 10 | Crewe Alexandra | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| 11 | Sutton United | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 12 | Carlisle United | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 13 | Walsall | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 14 | Swindon Town | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 15 | AFC Wimbledon | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 8 |
| 16 | Tranmere Rovers | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 17 | Newport County | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | -1 | 7 |
| 18 | Stockport County | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 7 |
| 19 | Harrogate Town | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 7 |
| 20 | Colchester United | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -5 | 5 |
| 21 | Gillingham | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | -7 | 5 |
| 22 | Crawley Town | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -5 | 3 |
| 23 | Hartlepool United | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -9 | 3 |
| 24 | Rochdale | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 2 |
